Re: RFC: GNOME 2.0 Multimedia strategy

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> A major feaure currently missing in GStreamer is MIDI. There is no
> special reason for this except that none of the developers have gotten
> around to implementing it yet.

They need to hurry - hardware vendors are busy dumping midi hardware support 8)

> to enable simple stuff like `gnome_play_sound("bleep.wav")` for all
> those apps not in need of the full GStreamer API. This will be based
> upon the current gstmediaplay API (libgstplay).

And also simple glue wrappers for the libesd calls so that most apps just
work